I have a new laptop.
I downloaded a few games and downloaded many movies and work programs.
Now I have the feeling that he has become heavier.
Is that possible?
No, because the data are indeed stored on the hard drive and the weighs always the same so the laptop can't be more difficult to play movies music and so on you only have if you something down less storage space available this is normal.
Apparently many have no idea here. Yes, your laptop is getting heavier because every kind of data has a weight. (On the hard disk are the electrons or other electron-chemical stimuli).
However, this weight is not noticeable to humans because it can't be perceived even by sophisticated machinery. Only very precise, million-dollar, aligned machines can measure this weight or Even only estimate. But it definitely is.
However, in your case this is a pure head thing, because you can't feel it, unless you are a superhero ^^
The electrons that were in it before the storage, will still be there after the storage, and certainly did not multiply according to the law of conservation of energy…
What he downloads are only 0 and 1, which are stored in the shift registers of the hard disk by shifting electromagnetic charges, which in no case leads to an increase in mass, even minimal.
If one can speak here of mass change at all, then rather of the change of their place, thus of a kind mass shift, which is of course still nonsense: laugh
Apparently many have no idea here.
You're right, though. Unfortunately, you are one of them.
Data on hard disks is stored in the form of magnetic alignments. Whether these are north-south or south-north makes a difference of exactly 0 for the mass and thus the weight.
Maybe imagine something more pictorial: Take a large board (or a tabletop, etc.) and place coins on it. Each coin now represents one bit (number = 1, head = 0). To write data to a particular positin, the coins p to p + n are reversed if necessary. No matter how many of the coins you turn over, how often, the mass of coins (and of course their number) remains exactly the same.
Question is generally spoken by data. On average, data consists of stochastically equal numbers of zeros and ones. If a file is deleted from a flash volume, not all data blocks are actually removed, ie they are described with zeros, but only the corresponding entries in the directory are removed. Compared to the actual data, this is only a tiny fraction compared to the size of the payload. Since the number of zeros and ones in the payload data is subject to stochastic fluctuations, the number of zeroes actually written in the directories will disappear in this stochastic fluctuation.
What does all this mean? Theoretically, we could change the weight of an SD card! If you load a very large file of all ones on the memory card, then the latter is more difficult than with a file of all zeros recorded.
It is logical, generally 1GB weigh data 10g, ie 100GB = 1KG!
So, now I have to go download a new good GPU.
